Charcoal Skull

Really have been trying to hone on my fundamentals lately. I wanted to really perfect my concepts of value, so I decided to make a skull (classic) using only charcoal. I feel that charcoal, such a malleable medium, really focuses the artist on the light and shadow, rather than the small details that pen art can so often overfocus on.

Here it is.

Photograph of a Field (Digital Paint with Photoshop CS6)

Decided to create something of my own today using digital painting techniques. I began by laying out a scene of a field and detailing some clouds in the sky:

As you can see here, it is a little blurry/out of focus, so I decided to take that to my advantage and output some creativity. I decided to put a camera in the foreground, in focus, to take away from the overall image, while adding a new element.

I painted it on a separate layer:

I made sure to make the camera more detailed than the background landscape, so that the illusion of depth could be created.

When put together, we get:

After that, I scaled down a copy of the first layer to put on the camera's screen, added some shadows using the brush tool, and made the lighting upon the camera more natural. I created a hand to accompany the camera, then I added a few birds in the air, and changed the hue/saturation of the entire painting slightly to yellow the picture a little. All of this was painted using a Wacom Intuos Small and Photoshop CS6

Final result:

Digital Painting of a Leopard

Got my hands on a Wacom Tablet, so tried to dip my hands into digital painting. Was quite enjoyable.

Leopard Head

Decided that I love leopards more than any other animal today, and I think I will be creating a collection of my leopard illustrations to submit to some competitions. Here is another one:

Timelapse:

Final:

Painted Leopard

Wow it has been more than 6 months than I've posted here. Well, doesn't really matter now. This is just a place for me to compile my art together really, and I have been busy with school. I have a few pieces to post for the next few weeks, so here goes the first:

Carnegie

Quick sketch of Andrew Carnegie

Lotus Flowers

Here is a piece of art I genuinely felt proud of. This piece took me quite a while and I believe is a really clean cut zentangle that was embodied into a lotus. I came up with the idea while thinking of symbols of chinese culture, and then decided to take a lotus and draw zentangle in it. Anyways, here it is. It was done with my Pigma Micron pens. I think the simplicity of the background really adds the "zen" to zentangle. The lotuses seem to be floating in nowhere, which makes everything so much more magical.